Macho Men Wear Pink–Wannabe Rockstars Who Make Your Skin Crawl–Canadian Cons–A Freak Show

Indeed it is. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the Harpercons and their cheerleaders are really beginning to make the American tea-baggers look like normal functional people.

And yes, the worst bullies and buffoons loves their pink. Decided it was indeed macho since Don Johnson made it so on “Miami Vice” in the 80s.

The machoness is just so stunning that it makes my skin crawl.  Yeah, great, besides the hockey buffoon wearing upholsery and Rob Ford.  Robocop Fantino whining about big bad Justin Trudeau and the Liberals and how they “made his life miserable”.

We continue with the “manliness” of Tom ‘Fatwa’ Flanagan, going on Power & Politics with Evan Solomon basically saying that Obama should put out a contract to assassinate Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.  He continues his “manliness” by responding to an email denouncing his behavior on the big tv screen simply by another stupid display in machismo:

 “Better be careful, we know where you live.”

While I believe this email response was not serious (Tom, humour really ain’t your forte), and if it were me, I’d probably keep the email exchange going until he had enough; not before.  There was another hollow apology from the idiot. U of C, what are you waiting for to can his sorry ass? I wonder if Flanagan has been seen in public wearing pink? Perhaps not a suit;  Cherry has the monopoly on that one, but a pink shirt and/or tie?

We all remember Don Cherry’s overly obnoxious behavior at Rob Ford’s inauguration, don’t we?  Not to mention, how he topped off his usual tacky outfits with something even more migraine inducing which was deliberate, of course. “wearing pinko for pinkos” or something along those lines, basically rubbing in the uber right take over at City Hall like a schoolyard bully.

“Well, actually, I’m wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything, I thought I’d get it in.

The rest of that tyrade is here, if anyone is morbidly curious. Like the typical mantra of the far right, he & Rob Ford talk of the ‘little guy”; the ‘lunch pail blue collar type’ and everyone else are just a bunch of ‘elites’.  Ford’s monosyllabic gravy train schtick was further amplified by a buffoon wearing overpriced drapes you’d find at the trailor park. 

I would like to take a moment to blow holes in that contradictory bull-shit. My brother is one of those ‘lunch pail blue collar’ types that Ford, Cherry and the rest of the tea-bagging element claim to be fighting for.  He works long and sometimes very odd hours and holds 2 or 3 jobs at a time. For the most part, he works in building maintenance for low cost housing projects in Toronto (uh-oh, ok, he may start sounding like an elite to those buffoons now). He’s worked in renovation and in furniture delivery in the past; whatever pays the bills, particularly maintaining a roof over his head.   As such, my brother doesn’t have a car.  In fact, like myself, he doesn’t have a drivers’ license.   He rides a bicycle all year round: rain or shine; snow or sleet.   He rides a bike because it’s the cheapest mode of transportation for him; yes, much cheaper than a monthly TTC pass.  No Rob Ford, Don Cherry or any Tea-bagger north, you don’t speak for the so-called ‘little guy’.  Yes, he lives Downtown.  Just a question, Don, Rob, any tea-bagger?  Is my brother a pinko who Cherry included in his “fuck you” speech yesterday, or is he really one of the little guys Ford wants to help? I’m inclined to believe the former, what say you.

We’ve seen the other examples of obnoxious and belligerent behavior of those in this motley group of Harpercons and their cheerleaders, who speak in monosyllabic tones. Ezzy Levant comes to mind.

“Voters are ‘sick of the elites and artsy people’ running politics,

Says Cherry.

Really? Then how come Stevie’s still around?  Remember him with cellist Yo Yo Ma last year, butchering the Beatles? Yes, artsy can be convenient for Stevie Spiteful.  Stevie wanted an encore for his Harpercon party. Karaoke night with the Harpercons last night. I had the misfortune of catching it on the CBC pages.  Yes, Stevie “I hate the arts & want to cut their subsidies” Spiteful, hisself, opening with Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”,  played in a polka rhythm; it was brutal! To hear him belt out the lyrics “Touchin’ one. Touchin’ you. Touchin’ me”…well, that’s just creepy!!  Yuck!!  He took a moment to play a few bars of  “Imagine” to commemorate the death of John Lennon.  If only Yoko Ono were around to chase him off the stage for tainting her late husband’s commemoration.  After watchin’ Stevie do “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, that was it for me…I need to go into therapy now.

So, this is the Conservative strategy in Canada these days? Mono-syllabic slogans delivered with belligerence, self-loathing pitbulls with pink faces like Rob Ford and John Baird who slam urban ‘elites’; a group, they themselves, are very much a part of.   Mayoral inaugurations being hosted by a mediocre hockey player and ex-coach in migraine inducing suits. Robocops who hate non-whites and think Charter of rights is toilet paper . Illiterate hockey coach senators.  All things artsy are bad unless convenient, like karaoke with Stevie.  So-called journos who isn’t afraid of devoting a column to her farting in public and coughing at anyone.  The Canadian right is a freak show ready for dinner theatre at Timmy Horton’s.  John Doyle said it best: It is Looney Night in Canada. The only thing missing is “The Simpsons’” Sideshow Bob, who was voiced by American right wingnut, no less, Kelsey Grammer.

Yes, the above is the winning formula these days. Canada has been dumbed down and most have such short attention spans.

Hey, Iggy, Jack and Gilles, you’re boring! How about beatnik night for you?  Yeah! Black turtlenecks and berets all around! Oops! Too ‘elite’ and ‘artsy’?  How bout all 3 of you break out the fiddles and break out the Charlie Daniels’ Band “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”?

Sidenote: Some buffoon from, you guessed it, Sun Media felt the burning need to talk about how much less Ford’s inaugural cost in comparison to David Miller’s (sorry, no link; don’t feel like looking for it). I wonder if that same buffoon cares to tell us how much Stevie’s karaoke hootenanny cost the tax payers?